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When Jenny Li took her six-year-old son to the airport for a flight from Beijing to Los Angeles, she was unsure if they would be able to board the plane. It was the height of last month's Omicron outbreak in the Chinese capital, and her travel plans were mired in uncertainties. With the city in partial lockdown, public transport between...

Whilst anxiety and depression have increased globally by 25 per cent during the pandemic, that figure is higher in China where millions have been under strict lockdowns, studies suggest.

China long avoided discussing mental health. The pandemic changed that By Vivian Wang and Javier C. Hernández New York Times,Updated December 22, 2020, 12:42 a.m. Email to a Friend People wearing face masks used their mobile phone on a subway in Beijing on Saturday.NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images China’s fight against the coronavirus was mostly over, but Zhang Xiaochun, a doctor in Wuhan, was sinking into depression, convinced she had failed as a daughter and mother. She agonized over h...

China’s fight against the coronavirus was mostly over, but Zhang Xiaochun, a doctor in Wuhan, was sinking into depression, convinced she had failed as a daughter and mother. She agonized over her decision to keep working even after her father fell critically ill. She worried about her young daughter, whom she had frequently left alone at home. But rather than hide those feelings, as would have been common just a few years ago in a country where mental illness has long been stigmatized, Dr. Zh...